Galinstan liquid metal breakup and droplet formation in a shock-induced cross-flow

Chen, Yi; Wagner, Justin L.; Farias, Paul Abraham; DeMauro, Edward P.; Guildenbecher, Daniel Robert

doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2018.05.015

Title: Galinstan liquid metal breakup and droplet formation in a shock-induced cross-flow

Journal Article · Tue May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · International Journal of Multiphase Flow

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2018.05.015· OSTI ID:1444082

Chen, Yi ^[1]; Wagner, Justin L. ^[1]; Farias, Paul Abraham ^[1]; DeMauro, Edward P. ^[2]; Guildenbecher, Daniel Robert ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)

Liquid metal breakup processes are important for understanding a variety of physical phenomena including metal powder formation, thermal spray coatings, fragmentation in explosive detonations and metalized propellant combustion. Since the breakup behaviors of liquid metals are not well studied, we experimentally investigate the roles of higher density and fast elastic surface oxide formation on breakup morphology and droplet characteristics. This work compares the column breakup of water with Galinstan, a room-temperature eutectic liquid metal alloy of gallium, indium and tin. A shock tube is used to generate a step change in convective velocity and back-lit imaging is used to classify morphologies for Weber numbers up to 250. Digital in-line holography (DIH) is then used to quantitatively capture droplet size, velocity and three-dimensional position information. Differences in geometry between canonical spherical drops and the liquid columns utilized in this paper are likely responsible for observations of earlier transition Weber numbers and uni-modal droplet volume distributions. Scaling laws indicate that Galinstan and water share similar droplet size-velocity trends and root-normal volume probability distributions. Furthermore, measurements indicate that Galinstan breakup occurs earlier in non-dimensional time and produces more non-spherical droplets due to fast oxide formation.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 1444082

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1548233

Report Number(s):: SAND-2018-6044J; 664065

Journal Information:: International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol. 106, Issue C; ISSN 0301-9322

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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